minato

[whitewalls]

I'LL PUT A MEME HERE LATER I'M AT WORK

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[whitewalls]

... I don't know.

[ awful? she hadn't spoken to tsurumaru herself, but she's seen him running around. he seemed friendly. ]

I know everyone has been expecting something bad to happen, but I wasn't imagining...

[compendiem]

Were people expecting something bad to happen?

[ He's struck with genuine surprise, because he'd spent his past few days fishing and sewing and believing that more information would come when the time is right. He wouldn't exactly be wrong, either— something big happened, and information would come out of it, but the price was too huge. ]

[whitewalls]

Mmhm... I'm sure some might be saying 'I told you so.'

[ saix!!! ]

I was expecting something too, just from what Sol and Lune were telling us, but I thought it might be something attacking us from the outside or something.

[compendiem]

[ Saix was right all along and we should listen to him. ]

That would make more sense... Something attacking us from the outside is something we could maybe help... But maybe this was from outside too. What do you think?

[ He doesn't want to believe the murderer was one of them, who were all victims of kidnapping; nor does he want to believe it was Sol or Lune, because... No, he has no real reason. Just wants to trust them, like he does everybody else. ]

[whitewalls]

I'm not sure. Sol and Lune said something about us having to figure out what happened tomorrow. Just going by the... vision? Whatever that was, it would just look like it's some kind of freak accident.

[ he was fighting some animal, after all. ]

But if someone is actually responsible then... how?

[compendiem]

[ "How" doesn't seem like the right question to be asking, why they should be trying to figure out "why"

He dips his head, and frowns. ]

Maybe... it happened outside one of the gates. Lots of wildlife out there... it could have been an accident, still.

[whitewalls]

Perhaps. But if they're insistent that someone is responsible...

[ it implies otherwise, maybe. they didn't give a lot of information but they did say that someone caused it. ]

But it could be someone from the outside, right. Maybe we'll need to look for the animal tomorrow?

[compendiem]

[ Maybe that somebody was Tsuru, and he got eaten because he looked tasty. ]

Maybe... But if it's an animal, what's there to do? Revenge is one thing, but... Would you want to hurt an animal who was just trying to feed itself?

[whitewalls]

[ that will be a very quick trial. ]

No. I'm sure others might if it was actually attacking people for no reason though.

[ she... would prefer for no one to be killing anything, person or animal. ]

I guess we'll find out later.

[compendiem]

[ Watch us still be struggling at the very last minute ]

I guess...

[ This is probably a bad time, but ] Lune says the best thing to do before tomorrow is rest. Can you stomach anything? Thought maybe we could try some sort of soup, and it'd keep our minds off things.

[whitewalls]

... that'll be nice. If there isn't anything we can do until tomorrow, we might as well do something.

[ instead of just sitting around in nothing but their thoughts. ]

[compendiem]

Alright.

[ Minato will lead the way to the kitchen, where they can sit around with a pot of water and also their thoughts, because that's what keeps coming up and occupying Minato's the entire trek there. Better for himself to eat, or he double wouldn't feel like it tomorrow, and he should make sure Naminé eats something too. ]

[whitewalls]

[ that's fine.

she stays quiet for the most part, but after a while she kind of has to ask. ]

... did you know him?

[compendiem]

[ There's no need to ask who she's talking about. ]

...I got to know him, a bit. But I think I'd feel the same even if I didn't.

[ If it were a stranger who had died, he would feel exactly the same as if he'd seen the ashen face of one of his teammates. He'd feel the same inside: just sort of empty, and numb. ]

Did you two get to be friends? I think you would have really liked him.

[whitewalls]

No. We didn't get to talk before it happened.

[ she sounds a little mad about this, like she's upset at herself for not reaching out to him before something like this happened. ]

I wish we did.

[compendiem]

[ What can he say to that? Of course there would be regret, not speaking to somebody before they passed, thoughts of "what if"s and "if only"s trying to convince you that something could have changed if things were different. Maybe Tsuru would've been in the kitchen with him and Naminé at the time, instead of out there. Maybe maybe maybe. ]

...Maybe we can burn an offering for him later. We wouldn't be able to hear anything back, but at least he can hear us.

[whitewalls]

Yeah.

[ she remembers seeing lune leave something at tsurumaru's coffin. ]

What do you think he might like?

[compendiem]

He really liked his chicken.............

[whitewalls]

... I'm not sure if we can send a chicken...

[ kara would kill them

she frowns, trying to think of... something. ]

What if we drew the chicken?

[compendiem]

Oh. Yeah, that'd be easier to burn. Though chickens are kinda hard to draw...

[ Minato as an artist. Save him, Naminé ]

[whitewalls]

We can go look at them later, so we have them as reference.

[ tsuru will hopefully not mind the chicken not being perfect, maybe] ]

[compendiem]

That's a good idea.

[ Minato slows a little, to pull a small notebook out of his knitted side bag that he has and I never mentioned, he knitted himself a bag because people kept telling him to stop carrying fish in his pockets, and he has a notebook because Axel told him to stop taking notes right on his arm.

Anyways. He flips to a clean page of the notebook and writes at the top "CHICKENS." That should be enough of a reminder, probably. ]

[whitewalls]

[ she has no reason to think he'll need a more detailed one. ]

... I hope someone can look after his chicken.

[ it's a chicken ]

[compendiem]

[ Yes, it's a chicken, and Minato looks concerned as well. ]

...Ookurikara knew Tsurumaru well, I believe. He said they'd go on missions together... He might be the best person to adopt the chicken.

[ The best place for an orphan is with family, if one would take them in. ]

[whitewalls]

... I'm sure he will then, if they're friends.

[ without them asking him to, she means. ]

I hope he's doing okay.

[ it's weird, because she figured that her friends being here was a blessing, but now she's wondering what she might do if xion or axel got killed like that. ]